In a move finalizing the City’s takeover of Measure P arts funding, the Fresno City Council on March 26 approved adding three positions to the city’s parks department. The vote was 7-0. Parks Director Aaron Aguirre estimated that the new positions would cost nearly $300,000 for the remaining three months of the 2025-26 fiscal year, with a full year costing about $500,000.
Aguirre said the money would come from both Measure P and the city’s general fund. Measure P is funded by a ⅜-of-a-cent sales tax increase that Fresno voters approved in 2018.
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